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HE rounds and their issues

Дата: 16.07.2010 09:15:41
View PostTheCommodore, on 16 July 2010 - 07:52 AM, said: HE rounds may not have been able to penetrate the thick armor of heavy tanks, but they could still do some serious damage. One 152mm shot from a KV-2 in WW2 had enough power to blow the turret off of a Tiger. They're downplayed the sheer explosive energy exerted by the different caliber explosive rounds in this game. Even today, when unexploded ordinance is turned into IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan, they still can cause major damage to the subsystems of a Abrams tank. It may not blow the turret off, but the concussive blast can knock treads off, it can injure the crew, damage internal components all sorts of mayhem can be created. Now think of it in WW2 when even a 75mm HE shell would hit say a panzer IV or a T-34, the crew could get knocked out, the concussion could smash the periscopes and other vision equipment, and it would most defiantly take treads off of the tanks.

MrVic: Aye I am more looking into its effectiveness being to high and superior to AP in almost all situations. More of gauging its effects and if they are to severe or not. I have a feeling this might be part of the issues people are seeming to have in regards to Heavy tank durability and SPG damage and last but not least some insane module damage to tanks on wild shots from some angles. Currently I think the in game values are applying to much damage to a tank and or module damage for the force of the round being used.
The HE rounds in WW2 vs the types of armor they impacted did not penetrate typically the force of the concussion wave would ripple through the steel and cause fragmentation and spawling of the inside of a armor plate. This caused fragments to in essence spray off the impact point into a tank killing/wounding crew and damaging systems without penetrating the outside section of the plating. But in that regard the heavier the armor the more kinetic force it can absorb due to their being a thicker plate of steel. This makes the force distribute more evenly as it travels through the plate much like distributing weight pushing down, but just at a faster velocity. This is also why tanks were built later on out of steel wielded joint for the most part. The M3 Lee and Grant were built with rivet construction methods. They found this to be a huge flaw since a impact force (concussion wave) would ripple through the plate and deplete its energy easier at the rivet locations causing them to snap off and bounce around the inside of a tank like bullets.

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